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text: On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Karen Shaeffer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:25:58PM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: >> >> Wikipedia has at least one article on the history of linux and talks >> about the very first distros -- there were two or three that were close >> to simultaneous, although the VERY first ones were very thin indeed. >> SLS (later Slackware) was one of the first, but not quite THE first. It >> was probably the first "complete" distribution, or close to it. >> >> IIRC, SLS was fewer floppies that Slackware, but Slackware was arguably >> easier to install and worked better (as one would expect). And it had >> more, better packages. >> >> rgb > > Hi, > > OK, here is your linux history buff quiz. We all know Patrick V. was > the technical spirit of slackware. Who was the original sales and > marketing wizard for slackware? (smiles ;) Hmmm, I'm guessing that would be "Bob", wouldn't it? I mean, a lot of famous slacker linuxites used it, e.g. Maddog, but if you are smiling, it has to be him. And he wasn't smilin' because of Enzyte! rgb -- Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977

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Burger's Surf's Up Cafe
5401 Coastal Hwy.
Every Thursday:
Big Ass 80's Party With The Bigler
Buxy's Salty Dog
28th St. & Coastal Hwy.
Sunday, Oct. 30: Gates Open 11 a.m.
Thursday, Nov. 3: Team Trivia With DJ Jeremy
Charlie's Bayside Restaurant
Rte. 1 & Maryland Ave.,
Fenwick Island
Friday, Oct. 28: Kings Ransom
Clarion Hotel
10100 Coastal Hwy.
Ocean Club: Friday, Oct. 28 & Saturday, Oct. 29: First Class
De Lazy lizard
1st Street In De Bay
Friday, Oct. 28:
Tim Cyphers Duo, 5-9 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 29: Halloween Costume Contest Party With Tim Cyphers Duo
Dead freddies
64th St. & the Bay
Friday, Oct. 28: DJ Rupe, 9 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 29: Halloween Costume Contest With DJ Wax
Fager's Island
60th St. in the Bay
Friday, Oct. 28: DJ Hook, 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 29:
Kevin Poole, 5:30 p.m.;
DJ Robcee, 6 p.m.; DJ Groove, 9 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 28: Rock Bottom, 10 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 29: Halloween Costume Party With Toxic Mouse
Every Sunday: Jazz Brunch
with Everett Spells Project,
11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Globe, The
12 Broad St., Berlin
Friday, Oct. 28: Galaxy Collective
Saturday, Oct. 29: Halloween Adult Costume Contest Party With DJ Soulfinger
Sunday, Oct. 30:
Patrick McAllorum, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Greene Turtle North
11601 Coastal Hwy.
Every Friday: DJ Wax
Every Saturday: DJ Wood
Greene Turtle West
Rte. 611, West Ocean City
Friday, Oct. 28: DJ Soulfinger, 5-8 p.m.; Electric Co.
Saturday, Oct. 29: Halloween Costume Party With Galaxy Collective
Hotel Atlantic
2 North Main St., Berlin
Every Friday: Elsworth Wheatley
Every Monday: Earl Beardsley
House of welsh
1106 Coastal Hwy., Fenwick Island
Every Friday: DJ Norm, 3-6 p.m.
Every Friday, Saturday & Sunday:
Tony Vega, 6-10 p.m.
Every Saturday: Tom Lowe, 4-6 p.m.
Every Monday:
DJ Norm with DCHDC, 6-9 p.m.
Every Wednesday:
Bob Hughes, 6-9 p.m.
Every Thursday: Tom Lowe, 6-9 p.m.
Lobster Shanty
Rte. 54, Fenwick Island
Every Thursday:
Kevin Poole & Joe Mama, 6 p.m.
M.R. Ducks
311 Talbot St., Ocean City
Duck Parties, 4-9 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 29: Closing Party With Johnny Bling
Micky fins
in the West Ocean City Fishing Center, Rte. 50
Friday, Oct. 28: Darin Engh, 4 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 29:
Blake Haley, 4 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 30: Season Closing & Costume Party With Full Circle, 1 p.m.
Ocean view grille & BBQ
16th. St. On The Boardwalk
Saturday, Nov. 5: Blake Haley
Pit and Pub
28th St. & Coastal Hwy.
Friday, Oct. 28:
Phantom Limbs, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 29: TBA
Every Thursday:
Locals' Night with DJ Jeremy
Pour house, The
501 S. Baltimore Ave.,Corner Of Wicomico & Baltimore Ave.
Friday, Oct. 28: DJ Bigler
Saturday, Oct. 29:
Halloween Costume Contest Party With Phantom Limbs & Lower Class Citizens
Every Tuesday: Poker Night, 7 p.m.
Every Wednesday: Open Mic Night with Livin' The Dream, 9:30 p.m.
Every Thursday: DJ Rupe, 9 p.m.
49th St. & Coastal Hwy.
Friday, Oct. 28: Cheap Thrills, Gypsy Wisdom & DJs
Saturday, Oct. 29: Full Circle, Second Majesty, Joe Bachman & The Crew & DJs
Every Thursday: Live DJ Dance Party
Smitty McGee's
Rte. 54, West Fenwick Ireland, Del.
Every Friday: Randy Lee Ashcraft
& The Saltwater Cowboys
Monday, Oct. 31: Halloween Costume Contest Party With DJ Wax
Every Wednesday:
Karaoke with DJ Whiplash, 10 p.m.
Every Thursday:
Randy Lee Ashcraft, 8 p.m.
Steer inn Tavern
10514 Racetrack Rd., Berlin
Friday, Oct. 28:
Kevin Poole & Joe Mama
Saturday, Oct. 29: Loud Love
Every Wednesday:
Karaoke with Hey Mick, 8 p.m.
Every Thursday: DJ Marla, 8 p.m.


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Snowball Fight in Harvard Yard
This afternoon I escorted a tour group through Gen. George Washington's Cambridge headquarters, and one of the Concordant Volunteers' young interpreters described life with the commander-in-chief, including the following anecdote. Since there's snow forecast for this evening, it seems doubly appropriate for today.
The story comes from Israel Trask, born in or around Gloucester in 1765. His father was a lieutenant in an Essex County regiment, and in some early version of Take Your Child to Work Day decided that Israel, who had turned ten years old in February 1775, should come along with him to the war.
Israel's duties were, he later wrote, "the care of the baggage and the property of the mess. When the officers were called on duty, which was daily the case, either to mount guard, or fatigue duties in fortifying the camp,...my duty alternately was to take the edibles prepared at the mess to the officers on duty, which in some instance [were] miles distant."
In the winter of 1775-76 the regiment was moved into one of the buildings of Harvard Yard. And then some new soldiers arrived from outside New England. Trask recalled:
A day or two preceding the incident I am about to relate, a rifle corps had come into camp from Virginia, made up of recruits from the backwoods and mountains of that state, in a uniform dress totally different from that of the regiments raised on the seaboard and interior of New England. Their white linen frocks, ruffled and fringed, excited the curiosity of the whole army, particularly to the Marblehead regiment, who were always full of fun and mischief.In his 1960 biography of Col. John Glover, head of the Marblehead regiment, George A. Billias suggests that the Virginians in turn scorned the fact that Glover's soldiers included some blacks.
[The Marblehead men] looked with scorn on such an rustic uniform when compared to their own round jackets and fishers' trousers, [and they] directly confronted from fifty to an hundred of the riflemen who were viewing the college buildings.I'm struck by the fact that Washington grabbed two of his fellow Virginians, not two locals or one each from the home and away teams. He might have wanted to show he wouldn't be guided by regional loyalties, or expected better from his fellow colonists.
Their first manifestations were ridicule and derision, which the riflemen bore with more patience than their wont, but resort being made to snow, which then covered the ground, these soft missives were interchanged but a few minutes before both parties closed, and a fierce struggle commenced with biting and gouging on the one part, and knockdown on the other part with as much apparent fury as the most deadly enmity could create. Reinforced by their friends, in less than five minutes more than a thousand combatants were on the field, struggling for the mastery.
At this juncture General Washington made his appearance, whether by accident or design I never knew. I only saw him and his colored servant [possibly Will Lee], both mounted. With the spring of a deer, he leaped from his saddle, threw the reins of his bridle into the hands of his servant, and rushed into the thickest of the melee, with an iron grip seized two tall, brawny, athletic, savage-looking riflemen by the throat, keeping them at arm's length, alternately shaking and talking to them.
In this position the eye of the belligerents caught sight of the general. Its effect on them was instantaneous flight at the top of their speed in all directions from the scene of the conflict. Less than fifteen minutes time had elapsed from the commencement of the row before the general and his two criminals were the only occupants of the field of action.
Israel Trask went on to serve on various privateers between the ages of twelve and seventeen, then went into business and politics in Gloucester. He related this story as part of his application for a federal pension in the 1830s. It must have become publicly known because Washington Irving quoted it in his biography of Washington, published in the late 1850s. Trask was also quoted in David Humphreys's 1817 pamphlet about the Gloucester Sea Serpent.
(The image of a 1740 engraving of Harvard College above is from Wikipedia.)


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Skype has become the world's single largest provider of international calls, surpassing even incumbent telcos like AT&T. Unfortunately for the company, few of these calls generate any revenue, and corporate parent eBay grows impatient.
Skype might not be performing quite as well as parent company eBay would prefer a $2.6 billion acquisition to perform, but that hasn't dampened worldwide enthusiasm for the VoIP service. Skype is so popular, in fact, that new numbers out from TeleGeography suggest that it has become the "largest provider of cross-border voice communications in the world." Take that, AT&T!
Actually, AT&T probably doesn't care, since long distance has lost some of its revenue-generating luster, but the surging popularity of VoIP no doubt keeps future-thinking execs up at nights. Skype's revenues are more modest than the big telcos, despite its usage numbers; at eBay's annual meeting earlier this month, the company said that Skype pulled in $550 million in 2008.
Most of Skype's usage, though, generates no revenue. Its free computer-to-computer calls (certain handsets and mobile devices can now be used as well) have become a hugely popular way of making international calls. TeleGeography estimates that Skype's international traffic jumped by 41 percent in 2008 and topped 33 billion minutes of use, most of that in free calls. Traditional international calls grew only 12 percent in 2008.
Skype also hopes to work its mojo in the business world, offering a new beta of "Skype for SIP" that allows corporations to route calls from a PBX system over the Internet. As with the consumer version of the software, calls that remain on the Internet and go to other Skype users would be free; calls that connect to the traditional phone network cost pennies a minute.
Growth brings new challenges, of course, and as Skype now handles more international voice conversations than any incumbent telco in the world, governments are beginning to get interested. One of their chief concerns is that mobsters, spies, terrorists, Ponzi schemers, and other assorted bad guys don't simply get a free pass on eavesdropping by using a VoIP service like Skype. In the US, CALEA rules have tried to bring wiretapping rules into the Internet age.
European authorities also announced last month that they would lead an international effort to "overcome the technical and judicial obstacles to the interception of internet telephony systems." Skype was singled out for particular attention, though the company told us that "we have capabilities and we have programs in place and [governments are] aware of them."
Skype's prominence has also put it in conflict with existing phone companies, especially mobile operators. Skype would love nothing better than to see its software running on every handset in the world; plenty of consumers feel the same way. But wireless operators like to lock down their handsets to prevent exactly this sort of behavior, so Skype has been a key proponent of "wireless net neutrality," which the FCC declined to act on last year.
And it continues to face internal pressures from eBay, which early last year was publicly talking about its willingness to sell Skype if "synergies" between the two companies failed to materialize.
Still, what company wouldn't want to have Skype's problems? Going from startup to the world's single largest provider of international calls in six years is impressive; more impressive would be to see Skype generate massive revenues even as the cost of voice communications plummets.
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Total consumption of beer in the U.S. has fallen for the third straight year, according to a report published by the Beer Institute, a beer lobbying group. Since 2008, total beer consumption has fallen by as much as 11% in some states. Americans still, however, consume a massive amount of the foamy beverage — an estimated 6.3 billion gallons in 2011. Nationwide, 28.3 gallons of beer a year were consumed for every American of legal age.
Some states consume far less than others. In Connecticut, only 21.8 gallons were purchased per resident in 2011. In Utah, it was just 19.2 gallons. In three states, however, the Beer Institute estimates that more than 40 gallons of beer were consumed per person. Based on Beer Institute's report, 24/7 Wall St. identified the 10 states that drink the most beer.
In an interview with Beer Institute Chief Economist Lester Jones, he discussed the factors that cause beer consumption per capita to be higher in some states. Jones pointed out that the numbers can be misleading. The report measures the total amount of beer sold in the state. It does not, however, indicate how much is actually consumed by residents of that state.
So-called "blue laws," are state laws that prohibit the sale of liquor on Sundays. Other state regulation does not allow beer sale gas stations, convenience stores, or grocery stores. These laws likely encourage thirsty residents to drive across state lines to purchase beer.
In fact, many of the states on 24/7 Wall St.'s have few of those restrictive laws. In eight of the 10 states, beer is legally sold at gas stations and convenience stores. The sale of beer on Sundays is also legal in all 10 states.
According to Jones, there is an even more important reason for residents to seek out some states to purchase beer: taxes. New Hampshire has the highest per capita alcohol consumption because "anyone who is driving through or lives on the border of New Hampshire will probably opt for the 5% or 6% savings, and just go into the state to buy their alcohol there," he said. As a result, it is common for New Hampshire liquor stores to be visited by residents of Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine.
Despite the other factors that can influence consumption, there appears to be a strong relationship between the amount of beer purchased in a state and the prevalence of drinking — both casual and heavy — within the state. Based on a Centers for Disease Control survey for 2011, all 10 states had a larger-than-average proportion of residents who reported binge drinking. Even in states like New Hampshire, where outside purchasers account for a portion of total beer sales, 65.8% of those surveyed reported having at least one alcoholic beverage in the past 30 days, the second-highest percentage in the country.
In North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana, high consumption appears to be driven by the type of jobs in the state. Relative to the rest of the country, these states have booming energy, farming and construction industries. According to Jones, these jobs are traditionally filled by men aged 25 to 54, which is the core beer-drinking demographics.
The Beer Institute calculated the total amount of beer sold in the state each year, and, dividing it by the total population over the age of 21, estimated the average consumption per person. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 10 states with the highest consumption in gallons per capita in 2011. In addition, the Beer Institute provided data on alcohol taxes, rules and regulations related to the consumption of beer and liquor, and changes in consumption dating back to 2003. 24/7 Wall St. also reviewed heavy-drinking and binge-drinking data provided for 2011 by the CDC.
10. Delaware
> Per capita consumption: 34.3 gallons
> Total consumption: 22,592,366 gallons (7th lowest)
> Pct. change in consumption '03-'11: -2.3% (8th highest)
> Pct. binge drinkers: 20.3% (12th highest)
> Population density: 465.5/sq. mile (6th highest)
While most of the states that consume a great deal of alcohol are large and sparsely populated, Delaware is the second-smallest state by area, and one of the most densely populated in the country. As of 2003, the state legalized the sale of beer on Sunday. While beer consumption declined 7.5% nationwide between 2003 and 2011, it fell by just 2.3% in Delaware. Delaware is among the top 15 in the country both for heavy drinking and binge drinking. The state also has no sales tax, and an excise tax on alcohol of just $0.16 per gallon.
9. Nebraska
> Per capita consumption: 34.6 gallons (tied-8th)
> Total consumption: 44,711,021 gallons (15th lowest)
> Pct. change in consumption '03-'11: -5.7% (20th highest)
> Pct. binge drinkers: 22.7% (5th highest)
> Population density: 24.0/sq. mile (8th lowest)
Nebraskans are among the heaviest drinkers in the United States. Nearly 23% of Nebraska adults were binge drinkers while another 7.5% were heavy drinkers. Overall, 61.8% of all adults stated they had consumed alcohol within the past 30 days, one of the highest percentages in the country. Unlike many other states with high per-capita consumption, Nebraska has one of the higher tax rates in the nation, at $9.61 per 31-gallon barrel. In March, a New York Times article noted that the small town of Whiteclay, Neb., sold 4.9 million cans of beer a year to residents of Pine Ridge, a Lakota reservation across state lines in South Dakota.
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8. Texas
> Per capita consumption: 34.6 gallons (tied-8th)
> Total consumption: 604,956,568 gallons (2nd highest)
> Pct. change in consumption '03-'11: -9.4% (15th lowest)
> Pct. binge drinkers: 18.9% (19th highest)
> Population density: 98.3/sq. mile (25th lowest)
Despite being one of the nation's largest per-capita consumers of beer, just 54.3% of adult Texans surveyed last year had consumed alcohol in the preceding 30 days — well below the national average of 57.1%. Binge and heavy drinkers only accounted for 18.9% and 7%, respectively, of Texas' adult population. These figures are only slightly higher than the comparable national rates of 18.3% and 6.6%. One possible reason Texas sells so much beer is tax-related. As of July 1, 2011, sales of beer were taxed $6.01 per 31-gallon barrel for drinks with 4% alcohol content or less, and $6.14 otherwise. This was lower than all four states surrounding Texas, particularly Oklahoma, where beer exceeding 3.2% alcohol content was taxed at $12.49 per 31-gallon barrel, and New Mexico, which charged $12.71 per 31-gallon barrel.
7. Vermont
> Per capita consumption: 34.7 gallons
> Total consumption: 16,206,397 gallons (3rd lowest)
> Pct. change in consumption '03-'11: 7.1% (the highest)
> Pct. binge drinkers: 18.5% (24th highest)
> Population density: 68.0/sq. mile (21st lowest)
While alcohol consumption declined in the vast majority of states between 2003 and 2011, alcohol consumption actually increased in Vermont by over 7% — more than any other state in the country. Meanwhile, shipments between 2003 and 2011 grew nearly 13%, the second-fastest growth rate in the country and significantly higher than the half-percent growth of shipments across the country. Although the state's beer consumption per capita is higher than most, the sale of beer is also more restricted than most.
6. Wisconsin
> Per capita consumption: 36.2 gallons
> Total consumption: 149,651,260 gallons (12th highest)
> Pct. change in consumption '03-'11: -6.9% (24th lowest)
> Pct. binge drinkers: 24.3% (the highest)
> Population density: 105.5/sq. mile (24th highest)
Wisconsin is home to the Miller Brewing Company and a host of microbreweries — the state has 112 breweries, more than all states except four. But along with the breweries, there are a fair share of imbibers. Nearly one in every four Wisconsinites is considered a binge drinker, while nearly one in 10 residents is considered a heavy drinker. Both of those figures are higher than in any other state in the U.S. In 2011, more than 67% of the state's population had a drink in any given month, the highest rate in the country.
5. Nevada
> Per capita consumption: 36.5 gallons
> Total consumption: 70,951,684 gallons (21st lowest)
> Pct. change in consumption '03-'11: -17.2% (the lowest)
> Pct. binge drinkers: 18.6% (22nd highest)
> Population density: 24.8/sq. mile (9th lowest)
In 2003, 44.1 gallons of beer were consumed per person in Nevada, at the time more than any state except North Dakota. Since then, beer consumption has decreased by 17.2% — more than any other state in the country. The state is not especially strict on beer sales, allowing for Sunday sales, as well as for sales in grocery and convenience stores. A significant amount of beer consumption is likely driven by Las Vegas' tourism industry, a point highlighted by Beer Institute's Jones. As of July, Las Vegas had over 23 million visitors this year, while the state's total population was just over 2.7 million.
4. South Dakota
> Per capita consumption: 38.0 gallons
> Total consumption: 22,032,413 gallons (6th lowest)
> Pct. change in consumption '03-'11: -1.8% (5th highest)
> Pct. binge drinkers: 22.1% (6th highest)
> Population density: 10.9/sq. mile (5th lowest)
The 38 gallons of beer consumed per capita in 2011 is down from 38.8 gallons in both 2010 and 2009 and 39.3 gallons in 2008. Although per-capita consumption actually dropped 1.8% between 2003 and 2011, South Dakota is now fourth in consumption, up from seventh in 2003. More than 22% of the state's population are considered to be binge drinkers, the sixth-highest rate in the country. However, the number of heavy drinkers is significantly lower, at just under 6%, below the 6.6% national average.
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3. Montana
> Per capita consumption: 40.6 gallons
> Total consumption: 29,640,123 gallons (8th lowest)
> Pct. change in consumption '03-'11: -5.1% (18th highest)
> Pct. binge drinkers: 20.8% (9th highest)
> Population density: 6.9/sq. mile (3rd lowest)
Montana is just one of three states where the average adult drinks more than 40 gallons of beer a year. Montana has very few restrictions on selling beer, allowing Sunday sales as well as permitting grocery and convenience store to sell beer. In 2010, 20.8% of adults in Montana were binge drinkers, one of the highest proportions in the country. However, consumption overall has declined by 2.2 gallons per capita since 2003. As of last July, Montana charged $4.30 in taxes for a 31-gallon barrel of beer, lower than most of its neighbors but far more than the 59 cents Wyoming charged. Unlike Wyoming, however, Montana has no sales tax.
2. North Dakota
> Per capita consumption: 42.2 gallons
> Total consumption: 20,711,472 gallons (5th lowest)
> Pct. change in consumption '03-'11: -4.5% (15th highest)
> Pct. binge drinkers: 23.8% (2nd highest)
> Population density: 9.9/sq. mile (4th lowest)
In 2003, North Dakota consumed more beer than any other state in the country, with the average resident guzzling more than 44 gallons per year. But beer-drinking declined 4.5% between 2003 and 2012, with the average North Dakotan now drinking just over 42 gallons. Jones of the Beer Institute says that the decline in consumption could have been higher, except that the state's recent oil boom has attracted many young males, who statistically drink more beer than the population as a whole. Nearly 24% of the state's population are binge drinkers, which is the second-highest rate of all states. However, the 6.5% of the population considered heavy drinkers is slightly less than the national average.
1.New Hampshire
> Per capita consumption: 43.0 gallons
> Total consumption: 41,994,894 gallons (13th lowest)
> Pct. change in consumption '03-'11: -1.8% (6th highest)
> Pct. binge drinkers: 18.7% (21st highest)
> Population density: 147.2/sq. mile (21st highest)
While beer consumption in New Hampshire fell 1.8% between 2003 and 2011, it declined 7.5% nationally. Nearly 66% of people had a drink in the past 30 days through 2011, second only to Wisconsin. Although the state has the highest per-capita consumption, only 18.7% of the population are considered binge drinkers, just slightly over the 18.3% national rate. New Hampshire has a tax of 30 cents per gallon of beer. In neighboring Vermont, it runs as high as 55 cents a gallon if alcohol content is more than 6%. Jones believes that New Hampshire has the highest beer consumption partly because Vermont and Massachusetts residents come there to purchase alcohol.
-Michael B. Sauter, Alexander E.M. Hess and Samuel Weigley
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Do Social Security Workers Make More Than Doctors?
I was asked to send "copies of records or a narrative report including diagnosis, medical history, laborary findings, treatment and response to treatment." Beyond this, I also had to include physical and emotional impairment assessments and a functional assessment of their ability to sit, stand, walk, lift carry, handle objects, hear, speak, travel, and wash their car, view films, and eat bon bons (well, kind of).
And for this copying, writing, mailing, collating what might I see from the government to compensate my time? Well, if I attach this invoice that requires a Federal Employee Identification Number filed through form W-9 available at www.irs.gov (yes, Virginia, this compensation is taxed), I might receive...
...drum roll, please...
... twenty dollars.
Now looking up the lowest paygrade of Social Security worker's annual compensation of $29,726 and accounting for the 13 vacation days, 13 paid sick leave days, and 10 federal holidays they get paid, I estimate the least expensive Social Security employee makes a bit more than $16.50 an hour.
If we assume that the paperwork they just asked for takes about 2 hours collectively of office staff and doctor time, I think it's clear that doctors' payment for this service provided on behalf of our patients is substantially less than what the Social Security administration pays their own staff.
I wonder what else the government has in store for us.
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That's a face to face appointment at our family medicine office. Anyone who fills them out for free has long since retired or gone bankrupt.
- Tue Sep 08, 07:03:00 PM CDT
When Social Security workers are driving AMG Benzes and Maseratis, we'll talk.
- Tue Sep 08, 07:23:00 PM CDT
Working for a psychiatrist, I get the honor of filling these out several times a week. I have found that the SS request is much easier than some of the other reports I have been asked to complete.
One company wanted the EXACT same 5page report completed every week....and then complained that it seemed that we were just copying all the same information from week to week. Well, the patient does not come in every week (usually every 4-6 weeks). So, the patients file chart does not change much from week to week (unless of course, they want to count the calls our patient has made to us because of all the added stress this stupid company is causing her.)!
Frustrating to say the least! - Tue Sep 08, 10:55:00 PM CDT
- Kate Burton said...
I would suspect because they don't expect physicians to fill them out but instead for staff to fill them out and you to sign them.
- Wed Sep 09, 09:48:00 AM CDT
- jimmy bakes said...
So let him do his thing..
- Wed Sep 09, 09:50:00 PM CDT
Actually, I find this a filtering mechanism - an opportunity to have a real heart to heart talk with the pt about really being disabled.
I have a pt is a retired firefighter (who receives 80% of his pay at the time of retirement) & who has been on disability for the 15 years I've been his provider for "heart problems".
Now, in the 15 years, he's traveled, helped his son remodel a house, taken his grandchildren on camping/backpacking trips - you name it. His "heart disease" has also progressed due to obesity, smoking & poor diet. Yet, the taxpayers are still paying for his original "heart disease" disability.
I've never asked how he developed heart disease from his work as a fire fighter - perhaps smoke damage to his lungs. But, you'd think the disability would be limited to lung damage.......
So, yeah - I think this kind of documentation should in fact go on & hopefully, he'll come across physicians like you who actually look at the history & current illness and say the two things are not related at all now. Its a progression of poor health - just like a lot of folks.
Disability pisses me off! - Thu Sep 10, 11:24:00 AM CDT


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The mention of "portable" classrooms—or any similar term—puts fear into the hearts of parents with school-age children. Regardless of whether you call them portable, modular, or temporary classrooms, they conjure up unwelcome images of shoebox-like structures with few windows, stuffy air, and noisy and ineffective mechanical systems. But now several design firms, nonprofit organizations, and prefab building companies are developing improved portable classrooms that address these problems and allow schools to expand quickly and sustainably.
Although there isn't much current literature addressing the performance of portable classrooms, older research supports this dubious reputation. One study conducted in 2004 by the California Air Resources Board and the state's Department of Health Services found a much higher instance of environmental problems in the relocatable units as compared with permanently built school buildings. The investigation documented conditions such as inadequate ventilation, excessive noise, poor thermal comfort, low lighting levels, and high concentrations of formaldehyde.
Despite these shortcomings, many school systems can't do without portable units. According to the trade association the Modular Building Institute (MBI), across the U.S. about 260,000 classrooms are in "relocatable" buildings—buildings that are designed to be reused multiple times on different sites and are partially or completely constructed in a manufacturing facility. The National Center for Education Statistics estimates that a third of American schools have such classrooms.
These classrooms exist because they fulfill critical needs. Districts can respond to fluctuations in enrollment quickly and cost-effectively. Since almost all of the construction occurs off-site, portables ordered in the spring can easily be built and installed over summer break. And because they are generally less expensive than traditionally constructed schools, the units can often be paid for with funds from operations and maintenance budgets, allowing districts to avoid the lengthy and uncertain bond-approval process. "There are many good reasons portable schools exist," says Margarette Leite, a principal at the Portland, Oregon'based architecture firm Palleroni Leite Design Partnership (PLDP). Leite and fellow PLDP principal Sergio Palleroni have designed (along with others, including architecture and engineering students at Portland State University, where both teach) a higher-performing alternative to the typical modular school.
Palleroni and Leite's classroom, which they have dubbed SAGE for "Smart Academic Green Environment," features an efficient mechanical system that depends on an energy-recovery ventilator, materials with no or very low levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and ample daylighting through clerestory windows. Following the debut of a prototype in late 2012 at the U.S. Green Building Council's Greenbuild conference in San Francisco, the first SAGE classroom will be installed later this winter at a Waldorf School in Corvallis, Oregon. But it is not the only option for schools looking for ways to expand quickly and sustainably. Several design firms, nonprofit organizations, and prefab building companies are also developing improved portable classrooms that already have begun to attract orders from both independent schools and public school districts.
For example, a new charter school in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, is planning an entire campus made out of Sprout Space units. Designed by Perkins+Will, the Sprout includes elements intended to promote student health and productivity such as architectural-grade storefront glazing, dimmable LED lighting controlled by daylight and occupancy sensors, and marker boards and tack surfaces as substitutes for typical finishes.
And Project Frog, a San Francisco'based developer of component building systems established in 2006, is in the midst of fulfilling its largest contract to date—more than 250,000 square feet of educational facilities on 15 different campuses in the South San Francisco Unified School District (SSFUSD). The buildings are designed to perform 40 percent better than Title 24, California's strict energy code, mandates.
Project Frog developed the panelized system it is deploying at SSFUSD in collaboration with HMC Architects—a firm that specializes in education facilities, among other building types. The system relies on load-bearing wall sections with electrical chases included, laminated wood beams, and an acoustical metal ceiling and roof deck that acts as a structural diaphragm. These elements are fabricated in a factory and flat-packed for transport to the site, where they are erected on top of an on-grade slab. "This component assembly approach is derived from the lean manufacturing techniques used by companies like Boeing and Toyota," says Ash Notaney, Project Frog executive vice president of product and innovation.
Arguably, the portable classroom with the most ambitious set of performance goals is the one developed by the Seattle-based nonprofit SEED Collaborative. The SEED (Sustainable Education Every Day) is designed to meet the criteria of the Living Building Challenge—a "beyond LEED" building certification program administered by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI). In order to earn Living Building designation, a project must satisfy 20 tough-to-achieve "imperatives." Among these is a requirement for net zero energy: the building must produce enough renewable energy on-site to meet or exceed demand on an annual basis. It must also comply with the Challenge's materials standards prohibiting the use of 14 potentially toxic substances on the certification program's Red List. Many, such as formaldehyde and PVC, are commonplace in building materials and prevalent in conventional portable classrooms.
A prototype SEED manufactured by Method Prefab—an off-site builder of homes and commercial structures—was displayed as part of an ILFI conference held in Seattle last April. The 32-by-28-foot classroom has a durable building envelope with a high R-value (a measure of thermal resistance or insulating value). It is made of structural insulated panels exposed on the interior and clad on the exterior with a fiber-cement rainscreen. Additional features include triple-glazed windows, a photovoltaic (PV) array, and a composting toilet.
The prototype has been purchased by the Perkins School, an 80-student independent elementary school for children in kindergarten through fifth grade, located in Northeast Seattle. Once the permitting process is complete and the unit installed, Perkins plans to use it as a science classroom. Part of what made the SEED so attractive was the learning opportunity afforded by its clearly evident structure, visible electrical conduits, and a digital dashboard. This will allow students to track the electricity generated by a 6-kilowatt PV array, to be mounted on the roof of an adjacent building, as well as energy consumption. "The classroom inspires kids to look around them and think about intelligent design," says school head Barry Wright. These features also made fundraising relatively easy: the school was able to raise $130,000, about half of what is needed to buy and install the SEED, in less than three weeks, "because the concept is so intriguing," explains Wright.
The SEED classroom isn't the only green modular conceived as a three-dimensional teaching aid. For instance, teachers can point to the butterfly roof that tops Perkins+Will's Sprout and describe how it funnels rainwater for irrigation to two 50-gallon storage cisterns. Similarly, the expansion and contraction of a fabric duct suspended just below the Sprout's ceiling helps students understand how their classroom is heated, cooled, and ventilated.
The recent crop of higher-performing modular classrooms share more than a pedagogical philosophy—in fact, these new portable schoolrooms have more similarities than differences. With the exception of the Project Frog buildings, which are made up of a panelized kit-of-parts, a single classroom is generally formed from two long and narrow units whose dimensions respond to the limitations of what can be hauled by a semi-truck over bridges and roadways. The portable classrooms typically have simple shed roofs, or a variation on a shed roof, tweaked to maximize the opportunities for windows and daylighting. Structural elements are often left exposed—a strategy that not only allows teachers to explain what is holding the building up but also eliminates unnecessary materials. This approach helps keep costs in check and reduces the number of potential sources of VOCs. Those basic finishes that are included, such as linoleum flooring or carpet tile, are carefully vetted so that they do not negatively affect indoor air quality.
In addition, the green portables are designed for much longer lifespans than the typical relocatable units, which are intended for only 5 or 10 years of use—though in reality they often stay in place much longer. The SAGE, for instance, is a 50-year building, according to its designers. And although its superstructure is wood, its floor framing is steel—a feature that should make the unit easy to move multiple times, enhancing its longevity.
Although the developers of the green portables try hard to keep costs down, features like high-performance glazing, ultra-efficient mechanical systems, and extra insulation typically make them more expensive than standard-issue modular units. Leite estimates that in Portland, an 1,800-square-foot, two-classroom SAGE would be about $160,000, excluding foundations and site work, while a standard two-classroom portable building would cost about $125,000 in the same market. The cost of the SEED is comparable to site-built construction, according to Stacy Smedley, the SEED Collaborative's executive director. (At Perkins, the 900-square foot SEED will cost about $260,000 installed.) However, the classroom should pay for itself in operation and maintenance savings in only 11 years, she says.
Project Frog would not disclose the construction budget for the classrooms it is erecting in South San Francisco. However, the company maintains that the buildings' cost is equal to permanent modular construction (factory-built units installed on permanent foundations). But it still has the advantage of being high in quality and fast to complete. The on-site work for the district's almost 200 Project Frog buildings will extend over three summer breaks but total only 8 or 9 months, estimates James "Larry" Scott, the SSFUSD bond manager. Conventional new construction would have required a year and a half, he says.
Whether a schoolroom is delivered to the site as an almost-complete modular unit or in smaller prefabricated components, the architect's role is different from that of traditional brick-and-mortar construction. In the case of the Sprout Space unit, for example, Perkins+Will has licensed the design to a distributor, Triumph Modular. An interested school would enter into a contract directly with Triumph, who would in turn subcontract with a fabricator close to the site. For each unit sold, Perkins+Will will earn a royalty, explains Allen Post, Perkins+Will's Sprout Space team leader. But the architects may not have any subsequent involvement with the project—unless the client wants the standard unit customized, or desires the firm to design the site surrounding the classroom. In both cases, Perkins+Will would perform these services under a separate contract.
Although the architect's responsibilities may be different when modular construction is involved, the goal is the same, says Post. "We are trying to up the game and improve both temporary and permanent classrooms," he says. The objective is to make them "healthy, sustainable, and flexible."
Perkins+Will's Sprout Space, along with SEED, SAGE, and Project Frog, all have shared constraints and common design goals. Although the results can't be described as iconic architecture, this new generation of portables provides energy-efficient and daylight-filled environments that are conducive to learning. "The goal was never to make the sexiest modular classroom," says Leite of the SAGE unit. "It was to make an alternative to the everyday modular classroom." Phil Harrison, Perkins+Will CEO, echoes Leite's sentiment when he characterizes the aim of the Sprout Space: "If you want to make a difference, you have to make something that will be viable in the marketplace—something extremely pragmatic."
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Study: U.S. Companies Overseas Earnings Hit $1.9 Trillion
Large U.S. companies boosted their offshore earnings by 15% last year to a record $1.9 trillion, avoiding hefty tax bills by keeping the profits abroad, according to a new report.
The overseas earnings stockpile has climbed by 70% over the past five years, said research firm Audit Analytics. Data in its report covers the Russell 3000 index of the largest U.S. corporations.
U.S.-based multinationals do not have to pay U.S. corporate income tax on foreign earnings as long as the earnings do not enter the United States. Accounting rules also let the companies avoid recognizing a tax expense if management intends to keep the earnings indefinitely reinvested overseas.
"It would probably be nice to have this money in our country being used in our economy, but at the moment we see it growing elsewhere," said Don Whalen, general counsel and director of research at Audit Analytics.
Conglomerate General Electric Co (NYSE:GE), had the most indefinitely reinvested overseas earnings, at about $108 billion, while drugmaker Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) was next with $73 billion, according to Audit Analytics.
Businesses have been lobbying Congress for a new law that would let them bring foreign profits home on a regular basis with little or no tax due, or for a one-time "tax holiday" on foreign earnings.
Most Democrats oppose a tax holiday on overseas profits, citing studies showing that a tax holiday enacted under former President George W. Bush did bring profits into the country, but that money was not widely used for hiring or capital investment.
Some tax activists have argued for repealing the tax deferral law that lets corporations park profits offshore tax-free, though this proposal has made little political headway.
Some companies have been borrowing money in the U.S. bond market rather bring their overseas earnings home.
Computer giant Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) last week raised $17 billion in a record U.S. bond sale to help fund its plan to return money to its shareholders. The bond sale let Apple avoid taxes that would have been due if it had used some of its $102 billion in foreign cash instead.
Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), the world's largest software company, sold $2.7 billion in the bond market last month. It has about $74 billion of cash and short-term investments, but most of that is held outside the United States.


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The Chris O'Brien Lifehouse at RPA will spend $4 million on a Cisco network to initially support around 300 hospital staff and their patients at the new cancer treatment and research facility, set to open in September 2013.
The $230 million centre – named after the late head and neck surgeon Chris O'Brien – has engaged system integrator Dimension Data to deploy and support new wireless infrastructure, expected to go live in February.
Lifehouse has begun designing the network to support mobile clinicians, patients and their carers who want to bring their own devices – such as Apple iPads and iPhones, Android or other mobile gadgets – to the treatment centre.
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Hospital staff will use softphones with headsets, which aids the hospital's plan to create a healing environment to reduce anxiety cancer patients may feel if they hear constant phones ringing on first arrival for treatment. A call system will enable patients to speak directly to doctors from their beds to further reduce noise in the hospital.
Lifehouse also this month expects to select a supplier to provide a couple of hundred units of a patient information system at chairs supplied to cancer patients who are receiving treatment. This will provide television, movies on demand and internet and email access services.
"We have spent a lot of time [ensuring] the technology that we are implementing also aligns with the environment that we are trying to create," Lifehouse's chief information officer Anne Marie Hadley told CIO.
"We've tried to take the technology to the next level to address the issues and concerns patients have about the amount noise that they experience at a hospital.
"Patients want to feel empowered and one [way to do this] is by allowing them to bring their own device [to hospital] and stay connected to people while they are receiving their treatment."
Hadley said Lifehouse is also working with Cisco to integrate the Wayfinder GPS application onto patient's mobile devices so they are acknowledged when they arrive at Lifehouse. The application will also direct them around the hospital.
Securing applications and patient data
Many hospitals have baulked at wireless technology due to concerns over potential leaking of patient data. Cisco claimed that the "medical-grade" network at Lifehouse will protect the hospital's information and applications with identity authentication tools, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and self-healing capabilities.
One of these core applications is the Lifehouse Oncology Information System (LOIS) – which the hospital created using the CharmHealth electronic medical record system – to meet its specific requirements.
Lifehouse will pull patient data – with each patient's consent – from systems run by the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. LOIS will be able to communicate directly with the government's personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) system.
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Other systems include a TechnologyOne financial management package, a suite of human resources applications, instrument tracking, and a picture archive and communication system for medical imaging.
Lifehouse expects to employ around 600 clinicians and administration staff by 2015.
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The $1 billion in retrans fees CBS expects to generate annually within five years--falling straight to the bottom line--dramatically underscores the transformation of broadcast networks into content producing-distributing juggernauts fueled by multiple screens revenues.
It's a stunning turnabout in traditional TV economics at a time when digital and online video are garnering all the attention, but still generating relatively sparse revenues. Online video licensing will comprise only 2% of CBS' overall revenues this year.
Retrans fees paid by cable operators, as well as reverse compensation fees paid by CBS affiliates, were virtually nonexistent three years ago. In 2005, when CBS was the slower-growing asset spun off from Viacom, the entire ad-dependent network broadcasting system appeared headed for extinction in the digital explosion.
Although more than $250 million in retrans fees will account for 10% of CBS' 2012 segment earnings, those revenues are expected to double by 2015, generating 70% of earnings growth during that period. Even with another 5% audience erosion at the broadcast networks, robust retrans fees are closing the sizable disparity between cable and broadcast content economics.
"The four networks are the most sought-after product, so the sky should be the limit," CBS chairman and CEO Les Moonves told a Goldman Sach's conference last week. It's a simple case of supply and demand among a widening array of platforms and devices. "We're entitled to ask for more," Moonves told investors.
But there is risk in the argument that cuts both ways.
The proliferation of cloud video automatically synced across all platforms and screens could eventually marginalize the retrans proposition and cable's dominant distribution pipe. That notion surely appears to be driving Comcast/NBCU's recent decision to partner with Zeebox, whose "second screen" app automatically syncs video from any source across all platforms, including Apple and Google.
The broadcast networks have unilaterally filed lawsuits to block TiVo Stream and Aereo, and even DirecTV's Auto-Hop DVR service, because streaming free over-the-air broadcast signals to subscribers over the Internet bypasses their content management and payments on the retrans, affiliate and syndication fronts.
Moonves points out that "syndication is still the big dog" with 70% of CBS' program schedule produced and monetized by its CBS TV Studio, enhanced by more than $1 billion in international sales and new lucrative library deals with the likes of Netflix and Amazon.
Even the CBS TV Studio accounts for 27% of earnings and 3% to 5% annual earnings growth this year, compared with 5% to 15% for its peers, according to a Morgan Stanley analysis. CBS' ability to limit expense growth and capital expenditures also is at the low end of its media peers.
The bull case for an incremental $100 million in TV library content deals in 2013 could provide at least another 2% upside to earnings. I Love Lucy reruns still generate an average annual $20 million in income for CBS, Moonves notes. Plus, CBS expects 40% growth in cash flow over the next 12 months.
Potentially selling its $4 billion outdoor business would further strengthen an already debt-free balance sheet. So would its aggressive stock buyback and dividend payouts, while making CBS even more dependent on its traditional content proposition and stretching it into a tumultuous video marketplace.
The threat posed by the steady onslaught of new disruptive options could upset the broadcast networks' new financial equilibrium, in which retran fees are critical to offsetting modest and even no growth of their anchor ad revenues.
The bear case forecast is for top-ranked CBS' advertising to grow a mere 2% in 2012 (down 2% before political year spending), according to Morgan Stanley, while local ad revs will account for about 35% earnings in 2012. Although broadcast TV controls about 75% of the world's $200 billion ad dollars, network broadcast ad revenues in the U.S. are expected to decline 1.5% in 2013.
National ad growth is now below expectations, and broadcast network advertising is declining. Local advertising is bolstered by election-year spending. Domestic advertising grew less than 1% last quarter. Despite the weaker ad trends, the broadcast networks' new dual revenue streams are stabilizing and even bolstering the bottom line.
Affiliate fees alone represent one-quarter of broadcast and cable network company revenues, expected to continue growing high single digits annually for the foreseeable future, Swinburne says.
CBS' narrowly structured pure-play broadcast business makes the benefits and potential challenges of this new delicate economic balance all the more intense. It wouldn't take much in swift new tech developments or the cyclical nature of broadcast network competition (given NBC's promising signs of revival) to upend CBS' new status quo.
While News Corp. also expects to achieve $1 billion in annual retrans fees to offset low single-digit ad growth in the coming years, Rupert Murdoch's empire is fortified by the meteoric value of its sports and film content, cable networks and international sales.
For now, CBS -- even with its history of fighting early cable and digital -- offers the starkest evidence of the massive shift in revenue sources that is giving the broadcast networks a new lease on life.